Happy...

...HAPPY New Year! May angels watch over and guide us through our days~

Catching Up

Wow, does time ever fly when you're having fun! I can hardly believe it's been nearly a year, since I last posted on this blog. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. Here's a handful of highlights from the past year:

The heron and egret up above, took part in the Ripple Sketches project for the Gulf wildlife, last summer - around July, I think...

Then, in September, I was proud to see the little balloonist (above), show up in Patti Digh's Four Word Self Help Book. In October, the goat and parrot (not to mention, the bananas) were also published, in Creative Is a Verb, by Patti Digh. Both books are available through either Amazon or Barnes & Noble, as well as on the author's website).

The happiest event of the past year though, was welcoming a new member to our family, when baby V, the youngest of our three grandgirls arrived on October 22nd.

So there you have some of rhe highlights of my 2010. A banner year, of sorts. Next, to catch up some here, for this year...

You can read more about what's happened in between, on my Typepad blog.

Spring

A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king. ~Emily Dickinson

Rabbits and frogs a-leaping - the daffodils are waking up and the johnny jump-ups are jumping up. Must be time to spring forth!

Not a minute too soon for Mrs. Rabbit, either. Looks like the kids are ready for spring break too.

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Almost Spring

Inspired by Lily the Bear's den cam. To read more, here's my post on Tinkerings.

Dreaming of Spring

This blog has been napping without pictures for a long time... Hibernating...

While I've been dreaming winter dreams... of spring. After so long without any pictures over here, I decided to try planting something here again just to see if it would grow...

My other blog is a typepad. You can find more of my tinkerings over there.

~Sweet dreams~

Moving!!!

If you just found my old blog, thru my new one - feel free to look back thru my archives for a few laughs! and if you found this ol' blog first, when you're done laughing at my misadventures in blogland here, come see what I've been up to lately in the new place (click on the url below here)
Hi, everybody! I've moved to http://tinkerart.typepad.com/tinker_art/

Hope I see you over there!

Time Is On Her Side

Happy 175th Birthday, Harriet! In case you're wondering who Harriet IS, and how on earth she could possibly be 175 years old, check out the news story at http://news.com/s/nm/20051115/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_tortoise_1

She doesn't look a day over 110!

How amazing would it be to live 175 years? (supposing you could at least keep up some sort of decent appearance and good health!) Imagine what life was like 175 years ago...actually living in a Jane Austen novel setting (although empire-waist dresses aren't my favorite style for myself!) and then moving on up through all the other changes in our history...

Whenever I start thinking about things like this, it just makes me incredibly grateful for everyday things like - electricity; phones; cars; jeans & sneakers; heck, running water and toilet paper! Is that why everyone looked so serious in those early daguerrotypes? I know if I lacked even 2 of those items in my life, I certainly wouldn't have been smiling ear to ear! Actually the lack of even one of these makes me not too happy....

Do you know how behind I'm always running even WITH a car & all these other amenities - if I had to get somewhere by horse & buggy I'd end up like 2 days late! Without phones to keep giving updates as to my ETA, they'd probably just give up and have a memorial service for me figuring I'd been attacked along the way...

At least back then, I'd probably be much more adept at home crafts like knitting & crocheting - without all the distractions of the phone, the Internets, the TV, radio and no fast & easy way to get to the general store, what else would I do every night?

As it is now, I'm going to have to live at least another 120-something years of practice to be any good at knitting & crocheting!